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Does it seem to anybody else that we've actually stagnated instead of moved the field of computing forward during the last 10 years? Sure, machines are faster,
by tapostrophemo 19y ago
Does it seem to anybody else that we've actually stagnated instead of moved the field of computing forward during the last 10 years? Sure, machines are faster, we've got more bandwitdth, etc., but we're still "automating" stuff, rather than transcending the "pink plane".
Or, is it just that I've spent too much time at the dayjob, hacking Java together to make the customer happy?
- david927 19y agoCompletely stagnated. In another great quote from Alan Kay he says, "Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones. Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS." I think it was the demand/money. Once the PC revolution hit, there was so much to do just to automate current processes that we got lost in the workload. It doesn't help that our industry is both woefully ignorant of its past and horribly dogmatic about its present. That said, there are some very good people currently working in this space -- looking for the "pink plane". I'm very optimistic about this area actually.
- tapostrophemo 19y ago(I think/hope you meant looking for the "blue plane", unless the reason for looking for the pink one is to see what it is we're trying to transcend.) I'm curious; who are these people? What are they working on? Can I help?
- david927 19y agoYes, I meant the blue plane. (It's an old presentation -- I didn't watch it again -- but an important one.) The people are: Alan Kay himself, Charles Simonyi, and a company I'm affiliated with called Anemach. They each have very different approaches and we'll just have to wait and see what comes next.